I’m afraid I
caught the
common
core…
Jennifer Schultz, M.A., CCC-SLP
Shari Robertson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
ASHA
Convention,
2014
After attending this presentation, attendees will
be able to:
• state communication skills needed for
mastery of the common core state standards.
• identify children‘s literature that can be used
as a context for addressing communication
skills from the common core state standards.
• develop treatment plans using children’s
literature that address multiple
communication goals.
Common Core State Standards
 Written by National Governors Association Center for
Best Practices and Council of Chief State School
Officers
 Research-based, evidence-based
 Consistent with university and work expectations
 Goal is to ensure student are college and career
ready when completing high school
 Adopted by 43 states, DC, 4 territories, and DoDEA
National Governors Association (n.d.)
BOOKS
 A study by Haynes and Ahrens (1988) revealed that
children’s books contain approximately twice as
many infrequently used or rare words than even
conversations among college graduates.
 Books also provide exposure to more advanced
grammatical forms than spoken
language.
OUR FAVORITE REASONS!
 Low cost or no cost
 Readily available
 Portable
 FUN!!!
 (Plus, when you use books in therapy you are
naturally targeting both oral and written language
and facilitating a love of reading)
Consider:
 Lexile Level
 Vocabulary Tier
 Potential Connection to content of student’s
curriculum
 Interesting story or facts (student’s interests)
 Length
• Not too long
• 32 pages, cooperatively read in 15 – 30 minutes
 FUN FACTOR!
Lexile Levels
(Beck & McKeown (1985)
https://lexile.com/using-lexile/lexile-measures-and-the-ccssi/textcomplexity-grade-bands-and-lexile-ranges/
(link provided in handout)
Tier 3
Glottis
Photosynthesis
Hypochondriac
Rhomboid
Tier 1
Drink
Care
Laugh
Girl
Tier 3
Precision
Vocabulary
Tier 2
Descriptive
Vocabulary
Tier I
Basic and General
Vocabulary
Tier 2
Icon
Create
Branching
Fortunate
Frenzied
Grade-Level Vocabulary
 Marzano, Robert; Kendall, John S; Paynter, Diane
E;. (1991). The analysis and identification of basic
words in grades k - 6. Aurora, CO: Mid-Continent
Educational Reserach Laboratory.
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED337758.pdf
 1st Grade: behind, huge, hurry, promise
 2nd Grade: during, greet, perfect, wonder
 4th Grade: approach, capacity, magnificent,
procrastinate
 6th Grade: circumstance, hurdle, iridescent, tranquil
Title
Falling for Rapunzel
Arnie the Doughnut
Battle Bunny
Eight Ate
Tomorrow’s Alphabet
I Ain’t Gonna Paint no More
Diary of a Worm
**Capering Cows
**Shivering Sheep
**Go By Goat, Pants on Ants,
The Bark Park
Author
Targets
Leah Wilcox
Laurie Keller
John Scieszka & Mac Barnet
Marvin Turbin
George Shannon
David Carrow
Dorren Cronin
Shari Robertson
Vocabulary FUN!
FUN FACTOR!
FUN FACTOR! (and more)
FUN! (homonyms, vocabulary)
FUN! (Predicting, Alphabetic Principle)
FUN! (Rhyming, Reading Fluency)
FUN! (and more)
FUN! (Vocabulary, Rhyming, Phonemic
Awareness, Predicting)
Elizabeth Redhead Kriston
Phonemic Awareness (final consonant deletion, initial consonant deletion, voicing)
www.dynamic-resources.org
Ook the Book
**Run, Turkey, Run!
Peggy Agee
Herd of Cows! Flock of Sheep!
Monsters Can Mosey
The Wind Blew
Stick
www.dynamic-resources.org
Rick Walton
Gillia Olson
Pat Hutchins
Steve Breen
Phonemic Awareness
Vocabulary (Prepositions), Retell a story
If You Were a Prefix
Flight of the Dodo
Stubborn as a Mule
You’re Toast
Quick as a Cricket
Skin Like Milk, Hair of Silk
Some Smug Slug
Four Famished Foxes and Fosdick
Dinorella
Shrek
Marcie Aboff
Peter Borwn
Nancy Loewen
Collective Nouns
Verbs and Adjectives
Irregular and Regular Past tense Verbs
Vocabulary : spatial and termporal words;
regular/irregular verbs/story retell
Affixes
Affixdes (Suffixes)
Similies and Metaphors
Audrey Wood
Brian Clearly
Pamela Duncan Edwards
Similies
Metaphors, Similies
Figures of Speech - Alliteration
William Steig
Two Bad Ants
How Santa Got his Job
How Santa Lost his Job
Chris Van Allsburg
Stephen Krensky
Figures of Speech – Assonance, Idioms,
Alliteration,
Figures of Speech-Hyperbole
Perfect Verb Tense
Raising Sweetness
Diane Stanley
**Skill-Based Assessment of
Core Communication Standards:
K-2
Jennifer Schultz
www.dynamic-resources.org
Either/Or and Neither/Nor
Pronouns in proper case, number, and
person; correct grammatical errors
Progress monitoring Instrument for
Communication CCSS: Grades K-2.